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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:15 AM
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ABC: FEMA Employees Union blames Bush
<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/8/213844/3905>


The employees are fighting back. They don't want to be held responsible for what we've witnessed.

""FEMA is not going to hesitate at all in this storm," Brown said. "We are not going to sit back and make this a bureaucratic process. We are going to move fast, we are going to move quickly and we are going to do whatever it takes to help disaster victims."

But inside FEMA, longtime emergency managers were convinced the agency was not ready for Katrina.

"All of us were just shaking our heads and saying, 'This isn't going to be enough, and the director has to know this isn't going to be enough.' But nothing more seemed to be happening," said Leo Bosner, president of the FEMA Headquarters Employees Union.

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The union warned Congress in a detailed letter about FEMA's decline a year ago. State emergency managers also warned Capitol Hill and Homeland Security just weeks ago that DHS was too focused on one thing -- terrorism. ""

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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:20 AM
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1. TO ALL FEMA EMPLOYEES: We're waiting for memos!!
You guys are being blamed; you better speak up if you think you could have done better 'if only'!

And if you think 'Brownie' is going to take the fall and not some middle managers, I have some swampland you should come look at!

It's right on the banks of the Mississippi River, next to a flooded city you SHOULD have helped!!

:mad:
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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 03:26 AM
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2. Floodgate needs evidence of incompetence, corruption, and duplicity
Yes, you can say it was all on TV, bodies in the water, etc. However, impeachment and felony trials of the criminals needs factual evidence. It might require mountains of memos, or maybe a single one will unravel the kleptocracy.
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